Moscow: Police threaten violence against parents of arrested anti-fascist
Anti-fascist Alen Volikov, who is under arrest at Moscow's Butyrka pre-trial detention centre, was visited by police operatives on November 13, and subjected to psychological pressure aimed at making him admit his guilt. Volikov's lawyer Farid Murtazin reported that the operatives made threats of violence against his family members. The officers said that they would not leave Volikov's parents alone, and would set Federal Security Service (FSB) officers on them.
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After that, the operatives said that
out of all three people named as suspects in the "Moscow
anti-fascist case", Volikov would get the largest amount of
charges, including charges under Article 282, Part 1 of the Russian
Criminal Code (organising criminal community). Volikov's lawyer was
not informed about the interview. At the moment, complaints to be
filed with prosecutor's office are being prepared.
Volikov was
detained on November 6 on suspicion of involvement in the December
2011 brawl at Moscow's Vozdukh club, as well as of beating up a
nationalist. The venue's security guards, who were nationalists,
attacked gig-goers at an anti-fascist gig, and then accused the
ant-fascists of attacking them. A criminal case was started under
Article 213, Part 2 of the Russian Criminal Code (hooliganism
committed by a group of persons). Moscow-based anti-fascists Alexei
Olesinov and Alexei Sutuga were detained in February and April 2012
respectively. They remain in pre-trial detention, like Volikov.
Investigators try to accuse them of beating up a young nationalist,
but the charges were not yet filed. According to Sutuga and Olesinov,
the victims signed statements incriminating them under pressure from
the operatives, including FSB officers.
After Moscow's
Tagansky court ordered on November 8 to take Volikov into custody
until December 18, the anti-fascist declared a hunger strike, which
he still maintains.
Source: Avtonom.org, Nov 15, 2012
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